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" Nothing sounds as crazy as telling people you're not crazy. "

" Show business is a struggle. I certainly wish that I had just blasted on the scene and not had quite such a hard time. But there's a great sense of the relief in that you don't have to prove yourself anymore. "

" Part of the problem with producing contemporary political theater in America today is that many theaters don't have flexibility or resources, be it hiring a lot of actors or staging a work that might be tough for some audience and board members. "

" Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do. "

" New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought. "

" I have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people. "

" Watching people toss all caution to the wind, who are ready to put their lives on the line for a dream, is something that is accessible. "

" Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American theater. That's something embraced by 'Smash.' We should be telling our own stories. "

" The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America. "

" People kept saying, 'You've made it!' and I was like, 'What have I been doing all this time?' I've always felt successful. "

" Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience. "

" I think it goes without saying that young would-be playwrights in developmental workshops should be so lucky as to write plays as good as 'Waiting for Godot,' 'Uncle Vanya' or 'King Lear,' none of which would have existed without a decent plot. "

" I see how the Midwest distrusts the East Coast. The Midwest sees itself as morally superior. The Coast sees itself as intellectually superior. And the two are actually the same thing. "

" We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays. "

" I let action rise out of character, really. "

" Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity. "

" I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I don't always know what I'm feeling. I do a lot of rewriting later. But that first blast feels like a spigot - like it's coming from somewhere else. "

" In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all. "

" Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig. "

" I sincerely believe that for the New York theatre to remain relevant, all our major producing institutions should be presenting new American plays. "

" I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left. "

" I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think. "

" I remember when I was at Brandeis, Geoffrey Wolff, he was a great fiction-writing teacher. He was the writer-in-residence, and for those of us who wanted to be writers, you were so excited to be in the same hallway as him. "

" It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be. "

" Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere. "

" I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it. "

" I have two sensational kids who I have raised with my husband, hoping and working every day to help them become healthy, happy, and decent human beings. "

" I like working with television. I do. "

" I think that because television is shot on a really fast schedule, and it gets piped into your home on a smaller screen, it's much more about character and dialogue in a lot of cases than the movies are. "